South
Island Tour by Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama
The
Physics Room, Christchurch
3 August 2002
They also perform in Auckland and Wellington at a series of dates
from 26th - 31st July. Support at the South Island dates will be provided
by Bruce Russell and Greg Malcolm, established local improvisers.
Dates: First week of August 2002.
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery date is Friday 2nd August. On Saturday 3rd they play
at the Physics Room in Christchurch.
About the Artists: Toshimaru Nakamura
and Tetuzi Akiyama are two of the leading lights of the new
wave of Japanese improvisers advancing their cause under the
collective banner of Onkyo, which can loosely be interpreted
to mean less is more. They perform together regularly
at home, as well as in Europe. They have also collaborated with
artists as diverse as Taku Sugimoto, Otomo Yoshihide, Keith Rowe,
Gunter Muller, and Jerome Noetinger. Tetuzi is best known as a guitarist,
having released albums solo as well as in groups with Taku Sugimoto
and others mentioned above. His style is loosely blues-based, but
stripped back to a very minimal and deconstructed base of isolated
sonic elements. Toshi, as he is universally known, while
starting as a guitarist, has evolved a unique style of sound performance
based on the use of a small sound desk with no signal inputs. Instead
this no-input mixing board as he calls it, is set up
to loop outputs to inputs, running in outboard effects to produce
a delicately constructed web of feedback tones and other accidental
sonic raw materials. Much of the running in international improvisation
is being made by Japanese artists, witness 2001s highly successful
Japanorama CD 'Meeting at Off-Site vol 1', on Reset
[2002].
Hosting a visit by these artists in New Zealand will be a rare
and very significant opportunity for NZ audiences to be exposed
to cutting-edge sound work in this field. Given the number of creative
artists engaged in this type of practice in the South Island (witness
the 2000 Lines of Flight Festival, to be repeated this year), such
a tour has both an established audience and a body of local artists
poised to absorb the experience of witnessing these performances.
Further info at http://www.japanimprov.com/
Reviews, Essays & Articles ‘Artscene’
The Package, August, 2002
Sally McIntyre
Recordings
International domestic
Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes 040, 2003
Tetuzi Akiyama in duels with Greg Malcolm, Toshimaru Nakamura, Bruce Russell
Recorded by Tetuzi Akiyama at Physics Room on August 3, 2002 and Dunedin Public Art Gallery on August 2, 2002
Available from
Corpus Hermeticum,
P.O. Box 124,
Lyttelton,
New Zealand
hcorp@clear.net.nz
Excerpts recorded at the Physics Room
Tetuzi Akiyama in duels with Toshimaru Nakamura
1. 3:22 Ogg ~ Real ~ MP3
2. 2:13 Ogg ~ Real ~ MP3
Tetuzi Akiyama in duels with Bruce Russell.
1. 2:38 Ogg ~ Real ~ MP3
2. 2:14 Ogg ~ Real ~ MP3
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